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From Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)
  • Second year of badger culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire underway to combat bovine TB

    Badger culls resume in Somerset and Gloucestershire as part of government's comprehensive strategy to make England TB free.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Deputy Prime Minister speech on the state of UK nature

    Nick Clegg gave the keynote speech at the RSPB's State of Nature conference.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Consumer confidence to be strengthened through new food crime unit

    Government responds to Professor Chris Elliott's report into the food integrity and assurance of food supply networks

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Deputy Prime Minister announces Kew Gardens funding to be protected

    Nick Clegg announced that the government will maintain funding for Kew Gardens at current levels.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New regulations controlling trade in some shark and ray species

    Trade in manta rays and five shark species is being restricted from 14 September 2014 to protect their populations from declining.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Celebrating the Canal & River Trust’s Olympic Legacy

    Water Minister Dan Rogerson visited Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park this week to see the Canal & River Trust's work to restore waterways.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Thames Water fined £250,000 for polluting Newbury’s Chase Brook

    Thames Water has been fined £250,000 and ordered to pay costs of £6,887 for polluting the Chase Brook in Newbury.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • CPET sustainable palm oil newsletter, Issue 3

    This newsletter was issued in September 2014.

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  • Badger vaccination scheme launched to curb bovine TB spread

    A new badger vaccination scheme has been launched today as part of the government’s comprehensive strategy to make England bovine TB free.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • £30 million project set to reduce flood risk in Kent

    More than 1,400 properties between Camber and Lydd will benefit as work begins on the Broomhill Sands Coastal Defence Scheme in Kent.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Batteries directive: public views on draft 2015 regulations

    Public consultation and impact assessment on the 2015 draft regulations, following the amended batteries and accumulators directive.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Russian food ban: support for Scottish fishing businesses

    Support for Scotland's fishing industry in response to Russia’s unjustified food export ban.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New details on CAP implementation announced

    More information has been published for farmers about the new Common Agricultural Policy rules.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • North Sea trials show less than 1 percent of cod discarded

    The MMO has published the results of catch quota trials which took place in the North Sea during 2013.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Combined agency to safeguard animal and plant health

    A combined agency will start work this autumn to ensure government is better equipped to prevent the spread of animal and plant diseases.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Russian import ban on agricultural products

    Information about agricultural products affected by the Russian import ban.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Superfast broadband reaches 1 million more homes and businesses

    £1.7 billion government rollout takes superfast broadband to 1 million homes and businesses across the UK.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • HMG reaction to Russian sanctions

    Russia has no grounds to impose sanctions and should use its influence with violent Russian-backed separatists to stop destabilising Ukraine.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Campylobacter: government response

    Government advice on minimising the public's risk of food poisoning through campylobacter, a bacteria that naturally occurs in chicken.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • NMO enforcement authority annual report 2013-14

    The National Measurement Office enforcement authority annual report for year ending March 2014

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government